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most citedOn the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

2.3k citations · 2.9k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CL2025

Cartridges: Lightweight and general-purpose long context representations via self-study

Sabri Eyuboglu, Ryan Ehrlich, Simran Arora +8

Large language models are often used to answer queries grounded in large text corpora (e.g. codebases, legal documents, or chat histories) by placing the entire corpus in the conte…

cs.LG2025

Stronger Than You Think: Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks

Tianyi Zhang, Linrong Cai, Jeffrey Li +4

Weak supervision (WS) is a popular approach for label-efficient learning, leveraging diverse sources of noisy but inexpensive weak labels to automatically annotate training data. D…

cs.AI2024

Smoothie: Label Free Language Model Routing

Neel Guha, Mayee F. Chen, Trevor Chow +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in applications where LLM inputs may span many different tasks. Recent work has found that the choice of LLM is consequential, an…

cs.LG2024

Archon: An Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques

Jon Saad-Falcon, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Shlok Natarajan +8

Inference-time techniques, such as repeated sampling or iterative revisions, are emerging as powerful ways to enhance large-language models (LLMs) at test time. However, best pract…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

Open Problems in Technical AI Governance

Anka Reuel, Ben Bucknall, Stephen Casper +30

AI progress is creating a growing range of risks and opportunities, but it is often unclear how they should be navigated. In many cases, the barriers and uncertainties faced are at…

cs.LG2024

Prospector Heads: Generalized Feature Attribution for Large Models & Data

Gautam Machiraju, Alexander Derry, Arjun Desai +6

Feature attribution, the ability to localize regions of the input data that are relevant for classification, is an important capability for ML models in scientific and biomedical d…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Benchmarking and Building Long-Context Retrieval Models with LoCo and M2-BERT

Jon Saad-Falcon, Daniel Y. Fu, Simran Arora +2

Retrieval pipelines-an integral component of many machine learning systems-perform poorly in domains where documents are long (e.g., 10K tokens or more) and where identifying the r…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards

Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9

Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…

cs.CL2023★ 28 cited

LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models

Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho +37

The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal reasoning can LLMs perform? To enable great…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Embroid: Unsupervised Prediction Smoothing Can Improve Few-Shot Classification

Neel Guha, Mayee F. Chen, Kush Bhatia +3

Recent work has shown that language models' (LMs) prompt-based learning capabilities make them well suited for automating data labeling in domains where manual annotation is expens…

cs.CL2022★ 75 cited

Ask Me Anything: A simple strategy for prompting language models

Simran Arora, Avanika Narayan, Mayee F. Chen +6

Large language models (LLMs) transfer well to new tasks out-of-the-box simply given a natural language prompt that demonstrates how to perform the task and no additional training.…

cs.CL2022★ 128 cited

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

Percy Liang, Rishi Bommasani, Tony Lee +47

Language models (LMs) are becoming the foundation for almost all major language technologies, but their capabilities, limitations, and risks are not well understood. We present Hol…

cs.AI2022★ 13 cited

LegalBench: Prototyping a Collaborative Benchmark for Legal Reasoning

Neel Guha, Daniel E. Ho, Julian Nyarko +1

Can foundation models be guided to execute tasks involving legal reasoning? We believe that building a benchmark to answer this question will require sustained collaborative effort…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

Leveraging Large (Visual) Language Models for Robot 3D Scene Understanding

William Chen, Siyi Hu, Rajat Talak +1

Abstract semantic 3D scene understanding is a problem of critical importance in robotics. As robots still lack the common-sense knowledge about household objects and locations of a…

cs.CL2022★ 44 cited

Pile of Law: Learning Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset

Peter Henderson, Mark S. Krass, Lucia Zheng +4

One concern with the rise of large language models lies with their potential for significant harm, particularly from pretraining on biased, obscene, copyrighted, and private inform…

cs.LG2021★ 2.3k cited

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli +111

AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (e.g., BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks.…

cs.CL2021★ 14 cited

When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the CaseHOLD Dataset

Lucia Zheng, Neel Guha, Brandon R. Anderson +2

While self-supervised learning has made rapid advances in natural language processing, it remains unclear when researchers should engage in resource-intensive domain-specific pretr…

stat.AP2020★ 2 cited

Leveraging Administrative Data for Bias Audits: Assessing Disparate Coverage with Mobility Data for COVID-19 Policy

Amanda Coston, Neel Guha, Derek Ouyang +3

Anonymized smartphone-based mobility data has been widely adopted in devising and evaluating COVID-19 response strategies such as the targeting of public health resources. Yet litt…

cs.CL2020★ 43 cited

Bootleg: Chasing the Tail with Self-Supervised Named Entity Disambiguation

Laurel Orr, Megan Leszczynski, Simran Arora +4

A challenge for named entity disambiguation (NED), the task of mapping textual mentions to entities in a knowledge base, is how to disambiguate entities that appear rarely in the t…

cs.LG2019★ 59 cited

Machine Learning for AC Optimal Power Flow

Neel Guha, Zhecheng Wang, Matt Wytock +1

We explore machine learning methods for AC Optimal Powerflow (ACOPF) - the task of optimizing power generation in a transmission network according while respecting physical and eng…

cs.LG2019★ 139 cited

One-Shot Federated Learning

Neel Guha, Ameet Talwalkar, Virginia Smith

We present one-shot federated learning, where a central server learns a global model over a network of federated devices in a single round of communication. Our approach - drawing…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

Model Aggregation via Good-Enough Model Spaces

Neel Guha, Virginia Smith

In many applications, the training data for a machine learning task is partitioned across multiple nodes, and aggregating this data may be infeasible due to communication, privacy,…

cs.CR2017

Semantic Identification of Web Browsing Sessions

Neel Guha

We introduce a semantic identification attack, in which an adversary uses semantic signals about the pages visited in one browsing session to identify other browsing sessions launc…

cs.CR2016

Semantic Identification Attacks on Web Browsing

Neel Guha

We introduce a Semantic Identification Attack, in which an adversary uses semantic signals about the pages visited in one browsing session to identify other browsing sessions launc…